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<div><h1 class="article-title">How do I exclude a grade for a specific student?</h1></div>
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    <p>Use <strong>Excuse/Include Grade </strong>exclude a student's grade in a specific item or component of the course. This is a helpful method of not penalizing students who have been excused from an assignment. An item can be added back in the grade calculation by again selecting <strong>Excuse/Include Grade</strong> from the cell's drop-down menu. </p>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Go to Gradebook.</h2>
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    <p>Select <strong>Gradebook</strong> from the Tool Menu of your site.</p>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Click the arrow icon and then Excuse/Include Grade.</h2>
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<li>Click the arrow icon (<strong>Open menu)</strong>.</li>
<li>Click<strong> Excuse/Include Grade</strong>.</li>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Verify the excluded grade.</h2>
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    <p>A + icon (<strong>Grade has been excluded from grade calculations</strong>) will appear in the affected cell, and the score will have a strike-through, indicating that the score is not being calculated in the student's course grade.</p>
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